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Michelle Adams and Mickey Shelton at Lincoln Lab, 1977
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Michelle Adams and Mickey Shelton at Lincoln Lab, 1977

Michelle Adams and Mickey Shelton
Photo: Calvin Campbell/MIT News Office, Courtesy MIT Museum

Tennessee University students Michelle Adams (right) of Nashville, TN and Mickey D. Shelton of Petersburg, TN in their second year as interns at Lincoln Lab, June 1977.

Created in 1974, the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Minority Student Internship Program exposed students to research in advanced electronics, aiming to expand opportunities for undergraduates from historically black colleges.

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1970s
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Integration and Differentiation 1969-1994
Lincoln Lab
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https://www.ll.mit.edu/
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